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April 22, 2009
Historical Revisionism for Fun and Profit
Posted by Dave Blount at April 22, 2009 10:34 AM
Racism against anyone but whites may no longer exist in this country, but that doesn't mean it's going away — not so long as it can be milked for massive payouts. For example, last year an off-duty suburban New York police officer was mistakenly shot by other officers during an altercation. This occurred because Christopher Ridley got up with his gun despite warnings not to, and failed to identify himself as an officer. That would be the end of the story, if not for Ridley's politically fortuitous ethnicity. His father is suing for $90 million on the grounds that he must have been executed for being black.
But the gravy train has hit a little bump on the road:
A witness who claims in a federal lawsuit that Mount Vernon Police Officer Christopher Ridley was executed at point-blank range by a county officer told a different story when first interviewed by White Plains police about the shooting, according to his signed statement to detectives obtained yesterday by The Journal News.
Efrem Burgos said in the statement that he ducked behind a taxi when he heard gunfire and looked up only to see the aftermath of the fatal shooting.
"I heard the cops yelling to put it down. Then the shooting started. As more shots rang out I stopped counting shots and ducked down," Burgos said in the two-page statement that detectives typed and he signed. "I think it was at least two or three shots more that rang out before I stopped counting. I stayed down till all the commotion stopped. Then I got up and seen one person supposedly dead and the other one still alive and handcuffed."
But in a federal lawsuit filed on Burgos' behalf, the homeless man claims that Ridley had already been shot in the abdomen and the leg by two other officers and was no longer holding his own gun when Officer Frank Oliveri walked up to him and shot him in the forehead.
A promised bottle of Thunderbird could probably motivate Burgos to testify that Ridley was shot by space aliens. That this case wasn't immediately dismissed gives an indication of what kind of ideological farce our courts have become.
Ridley's relatives aren't the only vultures cashing in:
Also filing a federal lawsuit on Monday was driver Antonio Howard, whose Volunteers of America van was parked at the shooting scene waiting to transport [Anthony] Jacobs [the derelict Ridley had been struggling with after seeing him beat someone up], Burgos and other homeless men to a shelter.
Howard claims in his civil rights lawsuit that he suffered "severe emotional distress" by witnessing the shooting and that the officers acted negligently by shooting Ridley in such close proximity to where he was.
Maybe I could sue our legal system for giving me chronic indigestion.
On a tip from Wiggins.
